What kind of 'theme' is best for a space civilization and why is it rednecks?
>>46393643
Space truckers/space wal-mart, where Starcraft 1 stole most of its touchstones from.
>>46393643
>Something about the "Frontier" and how the further away from civilization you are forcing people to rely on themselves and each other.
>>46393643
>rednecks
>not empires
>>46393671
Thank god for cold fusion
>>46393777
>not redneck empires
>not bowing down to his imperial majesty jimbob
>>46393777
>BlackTriStarsJetStreamAttack.avi
>>46393806
>rednecks
>having an empire
Choose one anon
>>46393643
Someone's been watching Firefly.
>>46393923
They COULD have had an empire. It didn't work out, but it was possible.
>>46393923
>get signing, or we go back to making everything burn
Transhuman. Or you will have very unhealthy babies born due differences in gravity alone.
What ifSpace Spanish Empire
>>46393643
>Rednecks
>Civilization
>Implying
I want the Holy Roman Empire in space.
Huge human-dominated region filled with large kingdoms, merchant republics, free planets, holy stars and more all fighting wars against each other for power and influence within the Diet.
>>46396073
>hre
>holy
>roman
>empire
>>46393643
>Implying the combined might of the United Earth Directorate is a ragtag peasant civilization
It's going to be all about AI gods dominating their particular star and taking care of genetically enhanced humans. No FTL travel, no FTL communications. Conflict become a matter of years/decades/centuries. Human/Robot soldiers send to war against other system will never see their homes again until a couple of decades later or even never.
>>46394506
Sherman did literally nothing wrong.
>>46396952
then hitler did nothing wrong
>>46398884
Completely unfair comparison.
Sherman's orders were quite specific.
If the locals leave us un-molested, let them be.
But if they start anything, FINISH IT.
It's a perfectly reasonable approach for an army moving through enemy territory which wishes not to be bogged down by the local civvies causing problems.
>>46398884
>>46398884
I remember when Sherman rounded up millions of southerners gassed them to death, don't you?
>>46396073
40k?
>>46398922
Especially when you think about how much grief locals gave the Brits. It wasn't a question of /if/ the locals would be a nuisance, it was a question of /when/.
>>46394372
>it was possible.
This is what texans actually believe.
>>46402576
They also thought that they were relevant back then.
Sam Houston got the last laugh.
>>46403294
They still think they're relevant.
>we's gon sucede
"Okay. Go for it, see how long you last."
>w-w-well. We's gon do it! Wer Cuh-razy! Her we go!
>eny second now....
>her it is.
>jus liek we sed we wud....
>
>>46399380
That's not fair.
Sherman didn't know about gas back then.
>>46396845
He meant the Confederation, which was crushed by Arcturus' Dominion, which was attacked by the United Earth Directorade (UED, aka the guy in the pic), which had help from remnants of the Confederation.
A few confederates remain still, as mercenaries.
[spoilers]Some hope they'll rise again[/spoiler]
>>46403738
The only gas General Sherman would need is gasoline, in all it's wonderful varieties.
>>46403906
Been to Atlanta lately? They need the gas treatment again.
>>46393643
i've always been partial to space mormons with katanas
>>46396952
Pedro knows his shit, Sherman was the hero we deserve.
Total war wasn't invented by him but it was perfected by him.
More than men and more than resources, you have to break the enemies will to fight.
Make the path to victory so daunting and costly that the alternative is so much easier to accept.
Sherman wasn't a monster, he did what he did to expedite the end of the war and to preserve the further cost of life in the years to come.
If he has to burn every farm house, work house and field in Georgia then so be it.
>>46402538
>Brits
Anon, Sherman was American.
He's a General from the Civil War.
Fought for the Union.
Most famous for the "March to the Sea".
>>46393643
I like to make my dwarves rednecks. Moonshine, mudding, and families so big they ain't surprised for a second when they find out someone they've known for years is related to them even when neither of them know exactly how.
Oh, and they tend to burn furniture to celebrate victories and shit.
>>46407644
And as an American he should've been well aware how much of a nuisance anyone left behind but not cowed would be.
>>46393777
>empires
>not republics
did someone say terran3
because I think I heard someone say terran3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S41XFYRX6Bs
>>46407391
>not farm house, work house and whorehouse
So close, anon.
>>46408211
>known for years
>not been fucking for years
>>46403648
Most texans (like 95% of them) don't give a cow's hide about secession. They can't do it anyway even if they did care.
>>46396952
Based sherman put filthy savage southerners in their place, the south will NEVER rise again
Why not run your obligatory holier than thou spess elf federation as hippies and stoners struggling to parse their higher love energy wavelengths into speech?
>>46393643
>>46403856
But why putting non-redneck DuGalle instead of a fine specimen like this fellow here?
Mengsk did nothing wrong by the way. A world for a world.
>>46411944
>nothing wrong
He tried to kill off a shitty waifu character. Those are lines you just can't cross in the modern video game world.
RIP Arcturus, you had an extremely sexy voice.
>>46399380
Total War is ok when you win. It's not when you lose.
>>46399651
40k is retarded grimdark HRE, I'm talking about proper HRE done in space.
Which is only the dumb kid in class, not retarded, and less grimdark.
>>46396073
The HRE is such a fascinating, underused thing for people to take inspiration from and it's decentralized structure seems perfect for a space opera.
Hell even if you don't want a setting full of space Germans the political structures are still fascinating if you fit another culture over them.
>>46412214
>space Protestant Reformation
>space Thirty Years War
sign me the fuck up
>>46412320
>>46412322
Can't have the Space HRE without the Space Byzantines!
>You will never play in a space opera where the generic Federation is but one of many human nations protected under the massive umbrella of the Space Kaiser.
>>46412407
You know I'm gonna be pulling that shit once Stellaris comes out.
>>46412453
Wait, Space HRE is a thing you can do in Stellaris? You're shitting me.
>>46393643
Space French Revolution
... as long as you can stop Space St Just from ramming a nuke up Space Napoleon
>>46412773
>as long as you can stop Space St Just from ramming a nuke up Space Napoleon
anon please. it doesn't matter if space napoleon survives or not, because space admiral nelsons people are gleefully massacring every space!french fleet in the quadrant
>>46413555
JUST
FUCK
MY
SHIPS
UP
>>46413704
spaceadmiral hornblower and no quarter, anon
>>46412322
>wants Reformation and Thirty Years War in space
>picks HRE
Why not the nation and culture that is objectively better for those areas, and also known for shipbuilding, trading, exploration, and shaping the land to their will like the frugal, frilly-collared gods they are?
>>46412658
>Name your leader Kaiser _______
>Name your empire Holy Roman Empire
Yes... this is something you can do in Stellaris.
>>46393800
I love you Sarge.
>>46396585
Voltairefags gtfo and go back to sucking french "baguettes".
>>46414157
>>46413704
>>46413555
>>46412773
That is literally Honor Harrington
>>46417150
>that'sthejoke.jpg
>>46412773
>Space-Napoleon is exiled to the edge of a black hole
>Comes back using a ghetto conventional dive
>Due to relativity it's the equivalent of a living myth returning
I don't know much about the exact science but it's space-opera so we can stretch it right?
>>46417548
>Robot Arthur Wellesley vs Napoleon of the Void
A Balkanized space region is the best for a setting IMO, since your characters can fuck shit up in one area and leave to another, or they can be hired by one state to raid or sabotage another.
Power struggles and changing borders and such are good for a setting.
>>46412658
yea they have federations that can have a wide range of different nations under its umbrella including smaller federations
Space rednecks were amazing, but it probably won't be viable again for another few decades.
Millennials despise lower class white America.
>>46418933
give it a few years people will want it as a way to mix things up
>>46418944
You may be right. Hipsters have a tendency to hop from one lower class subculture to the next.
>[1990s] poor, urban blacks
>[2000s] northwestern/canadian loggers
>[2010s] ???
>>46409013
There is a BLAME anime?
>>46394506
I guess the fact the Union officers saluted their defeated foes instead of talking like edgy kids on a Cantonese Origami Agora is pretty interesting.
>>46396952
>>46407391
>>46408975
Sherman committed war crimes against civilians, including rape and murder.
I'm guessing it's spring break and that's why we have all the irrational edge.
Secession was legal and the South was in the right.
